Natural Resources, School of
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
2019
A Methodology for Flash Drought Identification: Application of Flash Drought Frequency across the United States, Jordan I. Christian, Jeffery B. Basara, Jason A. Otkin, Eric D. Hunt, Ryann A. Wakefield, Paul X. Flanagan, and Xiangming Xiao
A Methodology for Flash Drought Identification: Application of Flash Drought Frequency across the United StatesJORDAN, Jordan I. Christian, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason A. Otkin, Eric D. Hunt, Ryann A. Wakefield, Paul Flanagan, and Xiangming Xiao
Empirical Methods for Remote Sensing of Nitrogen in Drylands May Lead to Unreliable Interpretation of Ecosystem Function, Hamid Dashti, Nancy F. Glenn, Susan Ustin, Jessica J. Mitchell, Yi Qi, Nayani T. Ilangakoon, Alejandro N. Flores, Jose Luis Silvan-Cardenas, Kaiguang Zhao, Lucas P. Spaete, and Marie-Anne de Graaff
Changes in students’ mental models from computational modeling of gene regulatory networks, Joseph Dauer, Heather E. Bergan-Roller, Gretchen P. King, McKenzie Kjose, Nicholas J. Galt, and Tomáš Helikar
Comparison of Methods for Modeling Fractional Cover Using Simulated Satellite Hyperspectral Imager Spectra, Philip E. Dennison, Yi Qi, Susan K. Meerdink, Raymond F. Kokaly, David R. Thompson, Craig S.T. Daughtry, Miguel Quemada, Dar A. Roberts, Paul D. Gader, Erin B. Wetherley, Izaya Numata, and Keely L. Roth
Fun in a Kansas Salt Mine, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
An Information Theory-Based Approach to Assessing Spatial Patterns in Complex Systems, Tarsha Eason, Wen Ching-Chuang, Shana Sundstrom, and Heriberto Cabezas
Analysing Habitat Connectivity and Home Ranges of Bigmouth Buffalo and Channel Catfish Using a Large-Scale Acoustic Receiver Network, Eva C. Enders, Colin Charles, Douglas A. Watkinson, Colin Kovachik, Douglas R. Leroux, Henry Hansen, and Mark Pegg
Paleoclimate of the subtropical Andes during the latest Miocene, Lauca T Basin, Chile, Melina Feitl, Andrea K. Kern, Amanda Jones, Sherilyn C. Fritz, P. A. Baker, R.M. Joeckel, Wout Salenbien, and Debra A. Willard
Modeling Elementary Students’ Ideas about Heredity: A Comparison of Curricular Interventions, Cory Forbes, Dante Cisterna, Devarati Bhattacharya, and Ranu Roy
Environmental Controls on the Seasonal Variation in Gas Exchange and Water Balance in a Near-Coastal Mediterranean Pinus halepensis Forest, Mariangela N. Fotelli, Evangelia Korakaki, Spyridon A. Paparrizos, Kalliopi Radoglou, Tala Awada, and Andreas Matzarakis
Environmental Controls on the Seasonal Variation in Gas Exchange and Water Balance in a Near-Coastal Mediterranean Pinus halepensis Forest, Mariangela N. Fotelli, Evangelia Korakaki, Spyridon A. Paparrizos, Kalliopi Radoglou, Tala Awada, and Andreas Matzarakis
Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law, Ahjond Garmestani, J. B. Ruhl, Brian C. Chaffin, Robin K. Craig, Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick, David G. Angeler, Carl Folke, Lance Gunderson, Dirac Twidwell, and Craig R. Allen
Variation in reproductive timing for the northern long-eared myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) across Nebraska, Keith Geluso, Cliff Lemen, Patricia Freeman, Brett R. Andersen, Jeremy A. White, and Heather M. Johnson
Robust observations of land-to-atmosphere feedbacks using the information flows of FLUXNET, Tobias Gerken, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Rong Yu, Paul C. Stoy, and Darren T. Drewry
Migratory shorebird adheres to Bergmann’s Rule by responding to environmental conditions through the annual lifecycle, Daniel Gibson, Angela D. Hornsby, Mary B. Brown, Jonathan B. Cohen, Lauren R. Dinan, James D. Fraser, Meryl J. Friedrich, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Kelsi L. Hunt, Matthew Jeffery, Joel G. Jorgensen, Peter W.C. Paton, Samantha G. Robinson, Jen Rock, Michelle L. Stantial, Chelsea E. Weithman, and Daniel H. Catlin
Comparison of extraction methods for recovering ancient microbial DNA from paleofeces, Richard Hagan; Courtney A. Hofman; Alexander Hübner; Karl Reinhard; Stephanie Schnorr; Cecil M. Lewis, Jr.; Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan; and Christina G. Warinner
Drought Early Warning and the Timing of Range Managers’ Drought Response, Tonya R. Haigh, Jason A. Otkin, Anthony Mucia, Michael Hayes, and Mark E. Burbach
Ecological correlates of group integrity among dispersing cliff swallows, Stacey L. Hannebaum, Mary B. Brown, and Charles R. Brown
Drought Impacts and Management in Prairie and Sandhills State Parks, Theresa M. Jedd, Devarati Bhattacharya, Cara Pesek, and Michael J. Hayes
National Survey of Geoscience Teaching Practices 2016: Current Trends in Geoscience Instruction of Scientific Modeling and Systems Thinking, Diane Lally, Cory T. Forbes, Karen S. McNeal, and Nicholas A. Soltis
Avian taxonomic and functional diversity in early stage of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) stands restored at agricultural lands: Variations in scale dependency, Myung-Bok Lee, Brian J. Gates, Robert J. Cooper, and John P. Carroll
A Pilot Qualitative Case Study of Agricultural and Natural Resources Scientists’ Twitter Usage for Engaging Public Audiences, Jaime Loizzo, Catherine Jones, and Abby Steffen
The Complementary Relationship (CR) of Evaporation: A Calibration-Free Diagnostic and Benchmarking Tool for Large-Scale Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Modeling, N. Ma and J. Szilagyi
Quantitative modelling biology undergraduate assessment, Robert Mayes, Kent Rittschof, Joseph Dauer, and Bryon Gallant
Evaluation of selected watershed characteristics to identify best management practices to reduce Nebraskan nitrate loads from Nebraska to the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River basin, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Troy E. Gilmore, Tiffany Messer, Daran Rudnick, and Thomas Heatherly
Influence of Land Cover and Soil Moisture based Brown Ocean Effect on an Extreme Rainfall Event from a Louisiana Gulf Coast Tropical System, Udaysankar S. Nair, Eric Rappin, Emily Foshee, Warren Smith, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Rezaul Mamood, Jonathan L. Case, Clay B. Blankenship, Marshall Shepherd, Joseph A. Santanello, and Dev Niyogi
Pesticide Application Practices and Knowledge among Small-Scale Local Rice Growers and Communities in Rwanda: A Cross-Sectional Study, Benjamin Ndayambaje, Hellen Amuguni, Jeanne Coffin-Schmitt, Nancy Sibo, Martin Ntawubizi, and Elizabeth VanWormer
Abundance estimation from multiple data types for groupliving animals: An example using dhole (Cuon alpinus), Dusit Ngoprasert, George A. Gale, and Andrew J. Tyre
Sampling related individuals within ponds biases estimates of population structure in a pond‐breeding amphibian, Kyle A. O'Connell, Kevin P. Mulder, Jose Maldonado, Kathleen L. Currie, and Dennis M. Ferraro
Flexible Stocking with Grass-Cast: A New Grassland Productivity Forecast to Reduce Weather Uncertainty, D. Peck, J. Derner, W. Parton, M. Hartman, and B. Fuchs
Monitoring Drought Impact on Annual Forage Production in Semi-Arid Grasslands: A Case Study of Nebraska Sandhills, Marketa Podebradska, Bruce K. Wylie, Michael J. Hayes, Brian D. Wardlow, Deborah J. Bathke, Norman B. Bliss, and Devendra Dahal
Variation in White-tailed Deer Antler Size: The Effects of Age, Landscape Composition, and Physiographic Province, Kathleen B. Quebedeaux, Andrew R. Little, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Gino J. D'Angelo, Charlie H. Killmaster, and Karl V. Miller
Variation in white-tailed deer antler size: the effects of age, landscape composition, and physiographic province., K. B. Quebedeaux, Andrew R. Little, N. P. Nibbelink, G. J. D'Angelo, C. H. Killmaster, and K. V. Miller
Pinworm Infection at Salmon Ruins and Aztec Ruins: Relation to Pueblo III Regional Violence, Karl Reinhard and Morgana Camacho
Imaging coprolite taphonomy and preservation, Karl Reinhard, Morgana Camacho, Breyden Geyer, Samantha Hayek, Chase Horn, Kaitlin Otterson, and Julia Russ
Seasonal Dynamics of Lipid Metabolism and Energy Storage in the Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat, Elizabeth J. Rogers, Amie S. Sommers, and Liam P. McGuire
Photosynthesis, yield and raw material quality of sugarcane injured by multiple pests, José A.S. Rossato Jr, Leonardo L. Madaleno, Márcia J.R. Mutton, Leon Higley, and Odair A. Fernandes
Seasonal Salinization Decreases Spatial Heterogeneity of Sulfate Reducing Activity, Valerie A. Schoepfer, Amy J. Burgin, Terry D. Loecke, and Ashley M. Helton
Retrospective tillage differentiation using the Landsat-5 TM archive with discriminant analysis, Sonisa Sharma, Kundan Dhakal, Pradeep Wagle, and Ayse Kilie
Factors influencing ranchers’ intentions to manage for vegetation heterogeneity and promote cross-boundary management in the northern Great Plains, Maggi S. Sliwinski, Mark E. Burbach, Larkin A. Powell, and Walter H. Schacht
Teaching Styles and Student Outcomes in Undergraduate Food, Energy, and Water Systems (FEWS) Courses, A. Sommers, H. White, A. Alred, J. M. Dauer, and C. Forbes
Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore, Amanda E. Sorensen, Rebecca C. Jordan, Shannon L. LaDeau, Dawn Biehler, Sacoby Wilson, John-Henry Pitas, and Paul T. Leisnham
River-Wide Habitat Availability for Fish Habitat Guilds: Implications for In-Stream Flow Protection, Jonathan Spurgeon, Mark A. Pegg, Piotr Parasiewicz, and Joe Rogers
The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor, Shana M. Sundstrom and Craig R. Allen
The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor, Shana M. Sundstrom and Craig R. Allen
Sensitivity Analysis of Aquifer Parameter Estimations Based on the Laplace Equation with Linearized Boundary Conditions, Jozsef Szilagyi
Comment on "Derivation of a sigmoid generalized complementary function for evaporation with physical constraints" by S. Han and F. Tian, Jozsef Szilagyi and Richard D. Crago
Catchment size is an important factor in mapping long-term flood behaviour, Jozsef Szilagyi, Janos Jozsa, Eszter Dora Nagy, Tamas Kramer, and Marta Farkas Spitzerne
The Prevotella copri Complex Comprises Four Distinct Clades Underrepresented in Westernized Populations, Adrian Tett, Kun D. Huang, Francesco Asnicar, Hannah Fehlner-Peach, Edoardo Pasolli, Nicolai Karcher, Federica Armanini, Paolo Manghi, Kevin Bonham, Moreno Zolfo, Francesca De Filippis, Cara Magnabosco, Richard Bonneau, John Lusingu, John Amuasi, Karl Reinhard, Thomas Rattei, Fredrik Boulund, Lars Engstrand, Albert Zink, Maria Carmen Collado, Dan R. Littman, Daniel Eibach, Danilo Ercolini, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Curtis Huttenhower, Frank Maixner, and Nicola Segata
Partitioning spatial, environmental, and community drivers of ecosystem functioning, Amelie Truchy, Emma Gothe, David G. Angeler, Frauke Ecke, Ryan A. Sponseller, Mirco Bundschuh, Richard K. Johnson, and Brendan G. McKie
Evaluating the Efficacy of the RodenatorTM (Propane-Oxygen Device) for Control of Black-tailed Prairie Dogs in Montana, Stephen M. Vantassel
Calibration and Validation of the Cosmic Ray Neutron Rover for SoilWater Mapping within Two South African Land Classes, Thigesh Vather, Colin Everson, and Trenton E. Franz
The Skiles Mummy: Care of a debilitated hunter-gatherer evidenced by coprolite studies and stable isotopic analysis of hair, Kirsten A. Verostick, Isabel Teixeira-Santos, Vaughn M. Bryant Jr., and Karl Reinhard
Resistivity Arrays as an Early Warning System for Monitoring Runoff Holding Ponds, Bryan L. Woodbury, Roger A. Eigenberg, and Trenton E. Franz
Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications, Marta Yebra, Gianluca Scortechini, Abdulbaset Badi, Maria Eugenia Beget, Matthias M. Boer, Ross Bradstock, Emilio Chuvieco, F. Mark Danson, Philip Dennison, Victor Resco de Dios, Carlos M. Di Bella, Greg Forsyth, Philip Frost, Mariano Garcia, Abdelaziz Hamdi, Binbin He, Matt Jolly, Tineke Kraaij, M. Pilar Martín, Florent Mouillot, Glenn Newnham, Rachael H. Nolan, Grazia Pellizzaro, Yi Qi, Xingwen Quan, David Riaño, Dar Roberts, Momadou Sow, and Susan Ustin
Irrigation impacts on minimum and maximum surface moist enthalpy in the Central Great Plains of the USA, Tianyi Zhang, Rezaul Mahmood, Xiaomao Lin, and Roger A. Pielke Sr.
2018
Reproductive ecology of interior least tern and piping plover in relation to Platte River hydrology and sandbar dynamics, Jason S. Alexander, Joel G. Jorgensen, and Mary B. Brown
Quantifying Uncertainty and Trade-offs in Resilience Assessments, Craig R. Allen, Hannah E. Birgé, David G. Angeler, Craig A. Arnold, Brian C. Chaffin, Daniel A. DeCaro, Ahjond S. Garmestani, and Lance Gunderson
Validation of a Process-Based Agro-Ecosystem Model (Agro-IBIS) for Maize in Xinjiang, Northwest China, Tureniguli Amuti, Geping Luo, Gang Yin, Qi Hu, and Elizabeth A. Walter-Shea
Resilience concepts in psychiatry demonstrated with bipolar disorder, David G. Angeler, Craig R. Allen, and Maj-Liz Persson
Tree Rings of Pinus ponderosa and Juniperus virginiana Show Different Responses to Stand Density and Water Availability in the Nebraska Grassland, R. Aus Der Au, Tala Awada, J. Hiller, G. Battipaglia, M. Saurer, and P. Cherubini
An analysis of agreement between volunteer- and researcher-collected urban tree inventory data, Nick Bancks, Eric A. North, and Gary R. Johnson
A Method to Detect Discontinuities in Census Data, Chris Barichievy, David G. Angeler, Tarsha Eason, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Kirsty L. Nash, Craig A. Stow, Shana Sundstrom, and Craig R. Allen
Simulated Computational Model Lesson Improves Foundational Systems Thinking Skills and Conceptual Knowledge in Biology Students, H. E. Bergan-Roller, N. J. Galt, Christopher J. Chizinski, T. Helikar, and J. T. Dauer
River Otter Distribution in Nebraska, Nathan R. Bieber, Samuel P. Wilson, and Craig R. Allen
Extreme group sizes in a colonial bird favored during a rare climatic event, Charles R. Brown and Mary B. Brown
Assessing Responses of Betula papyrifera to Climate Variability in a Remnant Population along the Niobrara River Valley in Nebraska, U.S.A., through Dendroecological and Remote-Sensing Techniques, E. Bumann, T. Awada, B. Wardlow, M. Hayes, J. Okalebo, C. Helzer, A. Mazis, J. Hiller, and P. Cherubini
Assessing Responses of Betula papyrifera to Climate Variability in a Remnant Population along the Niobrara River Valley in Nebraska U.S. through Dendroecological and Remote Sensing Techniques, Evan Bumann, Tala Awada, Brian Wardlow, Michael Hayes, Jane A. Okalebo, C. Helzer, Anastasios Mazis, J. Hiller, and Paolo Cherubini
Thermal tolerance limits of the Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis): Implications for management, Jessica L. Burnett, Kevin L. Pope, Alec Wong, Craig R. Allen, Danielle Haak, Bruce J. Stephen, and Daniel R. Uden
Recovering parasites from mummies and coprolites: An epidemiological approach, Morgana Camacho, Adauto Araújo, Johnica J. Morrow, Jane E. Buikstra, and Karl Reinhard
Taphonomic considerations on pinworm prevalence in three Ancestral Puebloan latrines, Morgana Camacho, Alena M. Iñiguez, and Karl Reinhard
Comparing crop growth and carbon budgets simulated across AmeriFlux agricultural sites using the Community Land Model (CLM), Ming Chen, Timothy J. Griffis, John M. Baker, Jeffrey D. Wood, Tilden Meyers, and Andrew E. Suyker
MODULAR OXIDANT DELIVERY SYSTEM, Mark Christenson and Steven Douglas Comfort
Enhancing quantitative approaches for assessing community resilience, W. C. Chuang, A. Garmestani, T. N. Eason, T. L. Spanbauer, H. B. Fried-Peterson, C. P. Roberts, S. M. Sundstrom, J. L. Burnett, D. G. Angeler, B. C. Chaffin, L. Gunderson, D. Twidwell, and C. R. Allen
Enactment of Ongoing Formative Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities for Professional Development and Practice, Dante Cisterna and Amelia Wenk Gotwals
Supporting science teachers in creating lessons with explicit conceptual storylines, Dante Cisterna, Kelsey Lipsitz, Deborah Hanuscin, Zandra de Araujo, and Delinda van Garderen
Does Might Make Right?: An Experimental Investigation on the Impact of Who Owns the Property Rights, Hans J. Czap, Natalia V. Czap, Mark E. Burbach, and Gary D. Lynne
Conforming to or Defying Gender Stereotypes? Empathy Nudging vs. Financial Incentives in Environmental Context, Natalia V. Czap, Hans J. Czap, Marianna Khachaturyan, and Mark E. Burbach
Experiments on Empathy Conservation: Implications for Environmental Policy, Natalia V. Czap, Hans J. Czap, Marianna Khachaturyan, Mark E. Burbach, and Gary D. Lynne
Gene flow from single and stacked herbicide-resistant rice (Oryza sativa): Modeling occurrence of multiple herbicide-resistant weedy rice, Joseph Dauer, Andrew Hulting, Dale Carlson, Luke Mankin, John Harden, and Carol Mallory-Smith
Juvenile rockfish show resilience to CO2-acidification and hypoxia across multiple biological scales, Brittany E. Davis, Lisa M. Komoroske, Matthew J. Hansen, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Emily N. Perry, Nathan A. Miller, Sean M. Ehlman, Sarah G. Wheeler, Andrew Sih, Anne E. Todgham, and Nann A. Fangue
Review of The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Social–ecological landscape patterns predict woody encroachment from native tree plantings in a temperate grassland, Victoria M. Donovan, Jessica L. Burnett, Christine H. Bielski, Hannah E. Birge, Rebecca Bevans, Dirac L. Twidwell Jr, and Craig R. Allen
A MODIS Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) as an Estimator of Isoprene Emissions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest, Iolanda Filella, Chao Zhang, Roger Seco, Mark Potosnak, Alex Guenther, Thomas Karl, John A. Gamon, Stephen Pallardy, Lianhong Gu, Saewung Kim, Manuela Balzarolo, Marcos Fernandez-Martinez, and Josep Penuelas
Water in society: An interdisciplinary course to support undergraduate students' water literacy, Cory T. Forbes, Nicholas Brozovic, Trenton E. Franz, Diane E. Lally, and Destini N. Petitt
Eddy covariance flux errors due to random and systematic timing errors during data acquisition, Gerardo Fratini, Simone Sabbatini, Kevin Ediger, Brad Riensche, George Burba, Giacomo Nicolini, Domenico Vitale, and Dario Papale
Imaging spectrometry and fluorometry in support of FLEX: what can we learn from multi-scale experiments, John A. Gamon, G. Y. Hmimina, G. Miao, K. Guan, K. Springer, R. Wang, R. Yu, H. Gholizadeh, R. Moore, E. Walter-Shea, T. Arkebauer, A. Suyker, T. Franz, and B. Wardlow
Spatial Prediction of Near Surface Soil Water Retention Functions using Hydrogeophysics and Empirical Orthogonal Functions, Justin Gibson and Trenton E. Franz
Recognition of Regional Water Table Patterns for Estimating Recharge Rates in Shallow Aquifers, Troy E. Gilmore, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, and Mason Johnson
Bayesian Model Selection of Regular Vine Copulas, Lutz F. Gruber and Claudia Czado
Provision of Climate Services for Agriculture: Public and Private Pathways to Farm Decision-making, Tonya Haigh, Vikram Koundinya, Chad Hart, Jenna Klink, Maria Lemos, Amber Saylor Mase, Linda Prokopy, Ajay Singh, Dennis Todey, and Melissa Widhalm
Habitat associations of shovelnose sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820) in the lower Platte River, Nebraska, Jeremy J. Hammen, Martin J. Hamel, M. L. Rugg, and Mark A. Pegg
Annual, seasonal, and diel surface energy partitioning in the semiarid Sand Hills of Nebraska, USA, Nathan C. Healey, Timothy J. Arkebauer, David P. Billesbach, and John D. Lenters
Population Genomic Analysis of North American Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon) Supports Their Conservation Priority Status, Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Ryan J. Harrigan, Linda Y. Rutledge, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Alexandra L. DeCandia, Kristin E. Brzeski, John F. Benson, Tyler Wheeldon, Brent R. Patterson, Roland Kays, Paul A. Hohenlohe, and Bridgett M. von Holdt
Agroecology for the Shrinking City, Dustin L. Herrmann, Wen-Ching Chuang, Kristen Schawrz, Timothy M. Bowles, Ahjond S. Garmestani, William D. Shuster, Tarsha Eason, Matthew E. Hopton, and Craig R. Allen
Hybrid speciation in birds, with special reference to Darwin's finches, G. E. Hill and R. M. Zink
Can genomic variation explain the extinction of the passenger pigeon?, Chih-Ming HUng, R. M. Zink, and Shou-Hsien Li
An examination of midwestern US cities’ preparedness for climate change and extreme hazards, Qiao Hu, Zhenghong Tang, Martha Shulski, Natalie Umphlett, Tarik Abdel-Monem, and Frank E. Uhlarik
Tracking Drought Perspectives: A Rural Case Study of Transformations Following an Invisible Hazard, Theresa Jedd, Deborah J. Bathke, Duane Gill, Bimal Paul, Nicole Wall, Tonya K. Bernadt, Jacob Petr, Anthony James Mucia, and Milan Wall